Classic Cars

Classic Cars is the original classic car magazine. It defined the world of classic motoring 40 years ago and still does it today. Every issue is put together by our team of classic car experts and enthusiasts. Using the best expert writing and photography, the magazine helps you experience what it's like to drive, keep and restore the classic cars of days gone by. We bring the stories and people behind the cars to life - showing you how to buy, keep and enjoy your cars. Every issue of Classic Cars is packed with: - Road tests - Drive stories - Expert buying advice - News and events coverage Classic Cars is the original classic car magazine.

Welcome • The Sixties may have been a heady time for British car design, but let’s not overlook that cheeky young upstart of a decade, the Britpop-fuelled Nineties

‘Massive, majestic and mind-blowing!’ • A standard Blighty-sized garage has always stood between Bill Wolff-Evans and his dream Yank-tank. Will a colossal Imperial LeBaron sate his long-held desire?

Year-end bargains everywhere • Good news for buyers – Rolls-Royce Corniche pricing dynamics are changing

Arizona’s mixed Porsche results • Two Scottsdale auctions with very contrasting results. Which one shows the way?

A beacon of Bugatti originality? • US museum sale’s Type 35B has hardly been touched for almost seven decades

Cal Spider joins test of Ferrari market • Open-top 250GT one of high-aiming Prancing Horse specials

F1 to the fore at Autosport • 75 years of motorsport’s top formula defines the annual motorsport extravaganza

Snowed in at Bicester • Bicester Scramble forges ahead despite weather warnings

February-April highlights • Show season begins, plus new events get underway from Italy to India

One-owner E-type in French sale • Highly original Jaguar surfaces in France after more than 60 years of use and storage

‘ENJOY THE UNIQUE WORLD OF Classic Cars

Next Month • The May issue of Classic Cars will be restorative

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QUENTIN WILLSON • I’ve enjoyed owning so many cars, happy to move them on to make way for the next, but there’s one teasing me with regret, ten years after I sold it

ALEX RILEY • If you’re not careful, using your classic will become a less and less frequent occurrence until it’s effectively laid up. The time has come to use it, or lose it…

COOL BRITANNIA • The confidence of British culture in the Nineties overflowed into its cars. But which of these five icons of the Britpop era have kept their cool?

‘We are in the midst of an upswing in interest in the Nineties… Britain was a great place to be’

‘THE TRACK WAS LITERALLY OPEN TO ANYBODY’ • The track-day revolution redefined the limits of driving experiences in the Nineties. Stuart Gray, long-serving events manager at Knockhill, helped democratise the motorsport landscape

LIFE STORY OF A BMW E30 320i • Since being a surprise gift new in 1990, this BMW 320i has had everything thrown at it, from repairs to golf balls and even a deer!

Curves of conjecture • The Bentley Blizzard had been planned as a post-war sports car to beat the Jaguar XK120 – but it was never built. Now two specialists are turning the dream into reality. Today, we drive the prototype

BRAVE NEW WORLD • In 1980, the car world fended off another oil crisis with innovations we’re still using today. We take a high‑tech walk back through the hits and misses of the Birmingham, Geneva, Paris and Turin motor shows

HOT PURSUIT • As the UK weather turned grim in December, Quentin Willson grabbed a place on the 1000 Miglia Experience United Arab Emirates and the keys to a Mercedes 560SL

‘It was a bare bodyshell… and 30 boxes of bits’ • The target for...